With that in mind, one must wonder why up till now, to get the waiver information, it has been announced at the beginning of advisory committee meetings that it would be necessary to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request rather than have it posted on-line for each meeting. The FDA is now posting some conflicts of interest/waiver information on the Web page that contains information about meetings of FDA advisory committee meetings under the heading – Nature and Basis Statements of Conflict(s) of Interest .

By way of background, members of advisory committees currently disclose their financial connections to industry and the FDA may grant waivers to those with perceived conflicts of interest if it is deemed in the best interests of the process to have the input of someone so conflicted at a meeting. Waivers had been granted on a fairly routine basis.

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